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by jimlongley
Sat Nov 12, 2011 4:01 pm
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Topic: This day in history: November 12
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Re: This day in history: November 12

Hey Jim, I hate to tell you this, but one of my relatives was fighting on Guadalcanal in August of 1942, and my grandpappy was there with the Army later, bringing ashore supplies. His tales of Marines raiding the Army stores were very interesting, as well as Marines wandering in to try to get issued new Garands, claiming their weapons were lost in battle, while carrying perfectly good '03-A3s over their shoulders - "Oh, that sir? It's not mine, I'm (just carrying it for my injured buddy; just taking it to the lost and found because I found it in the jungle; etc, etc)"

Maybe you were referring to the naval "Battle of Guadalcanal" which started around this date?

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